The beautiful resort town of Clearwater, Florida, has millions of tourists every single year - but few ever set foot in the downtown area. Exclusive photos show the extent of Scientology's grip on the city. The church owns 67 buildings over ten square miles, including motels, training centers, religious retreats and the Super Powers Building with its auditing rooms - all worth more than half a billion dollars. 'Sea Org' members earn $50 a week and work seven days starting at 7am and ending at midnight. They pay for the right to run around a pole in circles for hours until they realize the error of their ways. 'You never get to see your family. That's how it was for me. I was there from 1973 to 2007,' former executive director tells Daily Mail Online. Pictured center are; 1.The Oak Cove Scientology Center. Lower level services including 'auditing' and 'case cracking'. Real estate value: $4,483,100 2.The Fort Harrison Housing for visiting Scientology members with 220 rooms and suites, the Crystal Ballroom, Flag Auditorium and Convention Center. Real estate value: $13,137,700 3. The Sandcastle Home of the Flag Advanced Org. Real estate value: $5,896,600 4. The Osceola Inn Accommodation for visiting Scientologists with 76 rooms and suites. Real estate value: $6,000,000 5. The Coachman Five stories of Standard Tech course rooms and the largest Scientology library in the world. Real estate value: $3,700,000 6. Super Powers Building Scientology HQ and the home of advanced Church courses. Real estate value: Over $30,000,000 7. Former Clearwater Bank Building New Church administration offices and staff dining. Real estate value: $2,038,400 8. Station Square Exclusive 146-unit condominium with pool. Real estate value: $20,000,000 9. Parking area Three-level parking and bus garage for Scientology coaches. Real estate value: $3,500,000

Harrowing mobile phone footage taken on board the doomed Germanwings flight has recorded the devastating moment that screaming passengers knew they were going to die, it has been claimed. The video, reportedly found amid the wreckage of last week's crash, allegedly captures the sound of terrified passengers crying 'Oh God' as the plane plunged into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.

Rev Creflo Dollar was criticized heavily for asking his followers to find $63m to buy him the most expensive Gulfstream on the market after his previous private crashed. But Daily Mail Online can disclose that he has previously been threatened with jail for refusing to disclose financial details to a judge and described as 'uncooperative' by the US Senate. He lives in a 53-acre estate near Atlanta, Georgia (right) and previously sold an apartment in the Time Warner Center in Manhattan for a profit of more than $1million. During boxer Evander Holyfield's divorce from his second wife it emerged the pastor's World Changers Church had received $4m from the sportsman but he refused to make a deposition, prompting the judge to attempt to jail him for contempt.

The individuals who claim they were behind the recent Gone Girl kidnapping of Denise Huskins say they are like Ocean's 11 and will strike again as they call on cops to apologize for calling abduction a hoax.

Jill Blackstone claims she was carrying out her sister Wendy's wishes for a suicide pact when Wendy suffocated to death March 14 in the garage of their Los Angeles home earlier this month. Jill told police she meant to die as well, but got cold feet and called a friend for help at the last second. Now, detectives believe that Jill intended to murder her sister, who was deaf and partially blind, and that Wendy never agreed to a suicide pact, according to TMZ.

Ambra Battilana Gutierrez's police statement, made in December 2010, was published in an Italian newspaper, where she said she was 'forced against my will' into having sex with the 'businessman of substantial means' for money. Miss Battiliana, now 22, (pictured left) went to the NYPD to allege on Friday that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, 63, (right) had groped her breasts during a 'business meeting' at his Tribeca offices in Manhattan, grabbed her thigh and tried to kiss her.

Lake Tapps, which was flooded in 1911 to power a hydro-electric dam, swallowed up four and a half square miles of countryside, including an old railway line and parts of a forest. But a recent draining operation has revealed that which was covered more than a century ago, including a raised wooden railway track (above) and things lost by people using the lake (bottom left).

Taken at the Atmen refugee camp on Syria's border with Turkey, the image shows the young girl frozen in fear with her arms raised and her lips tightly pursed. Turkish media identified the child as Adi Hudea, whose father died in the 2012 Hama massacre and who has been living with her traumatised mother and three siblings at Camp Atmen ever since.

In the sleepy town of Whittier, Alaska, nearly all of the town's 218 residents live together under one roof: the 14-storey Begich Tower, which houses the entire neighbourhood, including a police department, a school, two convenience stores and the post office.

These are the amazing scenes when a woman opens up her front door to discover a baby owl standing on her porch. The young bird is not afraid of the woman and looks up towards her. The owl gently rocks from side to side during the minute-long video in an undetermined location in the United States.

Former Penthouse Pet Simone Farrow (pictured) has broken down in court while discussing her addiction to the drug 'ice'. The former swimsuit model told the court that her mother told her it was OK to be a prostitute and took her to a brother when she was 17-years-old. The 39-year-old is accused of running and international drug ring in Hollywood and smuggling drugs into Australia in large bath products.

Everly Dickard (left with her parents), from Boiling Springs, South Carolina, died in hospital on Monday - more than a week after she stopped breathing while in the care of her babysitter, Katie Harris (right), on March 20. Harris, 32, had been looking after Everly just a day after the child's mother, April, returned to work following her pregnancy, according to a gofundme page set up for the family. Everly's father, Matthew Dickard, had also started a new job that day. The baby girl was rushed to hospital and treated in the ICU but passed away on Monday. Harris has been charged with abuse inflicting great bodily injury upon a child but the charges could be upgraded following her autopsy.

The extraordinary cache of memorabilia was discovered in a briefcase abandoned in a German apartment three decades after the affair took place, and later sold at auction. It is now on display in a New York art gallery. In a dangerous move for an adulterer, Cologne businessman Günter K, 39, kept a meticulous account of his relationship with a 24-year-old woman known as Margret S (left and centre) who was also married. The construction boss bought her dresses (top right) and kept locks of her hair (bottom right). The contents of the case, which are on display at the exhibition Margret: Chronicle of an Affair - May 1969 to December 1970, included hundreds of pictures of Margret in various places and poses: sitting at a typewriter at the office, travelling or in hotel rooms, undressing, changing, or getting dressed.

The unwitting victim, aged in her 30s, was captured on film for Brazilian hidden camera show Silvio Santos Program as the train pulls into an empty station. But to her increasing concern, the train doors do not open and the lights on the train and the platform begin to flicker menacingly. Terrified, she tries to yank the doors open out of desperation only to be confronted by dozens of walking dead who press their faces to the glass and push their hands through the open windows. She is later pounced on by a zombie who crawls up behind and tries to grab her, forcing her to wail in blind panic. The video ends with her fleeing the train in floods of tears.

Rafaele Sollecito, 31, was spotted looking at a $160,000 BMW at a dealership in Rome in the wake of his murder acquittal on Friday. Mr Sollecito, who spent four years in prison after previously being found guilty of killing Surrey-born Meredith, 21, is said to be looking at compensation for his time spent in prison.

A plainclothes police officer (left) has been caught on camera as he screams at a New York Uber driver (right) while pounding on his car. After pulling the man over for a traffic violation, the cop yells at one point; 'I don't know where you're coming from, where you think you're appropriate in doing that; that's not the way it works. How long have you been in this country?' This after the driver reportedly beeped at the cop and went around him when he failed to signal that he was backing into a parking spot.

When unnamed blogger Somewhereunderthewater bravely posted photos of her stomach while posing and then relaxed, she didn't anticipate the chord she'd strike with people across the globe. Six days after the images appeared, more than a million people have viewed them, with many leaving positive comments. Accompanying the posed and 'real' images, taken in a bathroom setting, is a post explaining why the user chose not to just show her body in its more perfect form. Somewhereunderthewater said her aim was to convey that even physically fit women don't look perfect all the time. She wrote: 'We aren't barbies. We are made of flesh and blood. These are all the same body - my body.

Noah and Connor Barthe (right), ages 4 and 6, died August 5, 2013, after a 14-foot African rock python escaped its glass tank inside Jean-Claude Savoie's home in New Brunswick, Canada, slithered through a ventilation pipe and fell into the living room, where it asphyxiated the boys as they slept. An anaconda, not the snake that killed the boys, is pictured at the home, left.

Almost 30 years on from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, almost 7,000 people are still working at the plant, helping to decommission it and dispose of the nuclear waste (left). They commute in on three trains each day, and are forced to undergo regular radiation tests (bottom right). Tens of thousands more live in towns and cities on the edge of the exclusion zone, exposed to between 20 and 30 times the usual background radiation level (top right). Finally, around 400 desperate pensioners have resettled inside the exclusion zone, unwilling to leave their familiar homes behind after so many years.

EXCLUSIVE: Heather Mack (left), 19, burst into tears when the prosecutor demanded she spend 15 years in a Bali prison - but spared her the death penalty. Mack and her 21-year-old boyfriend Tommy Schaefer (right) were in court accused of murdering Heather's mother, Sheila Von Wiese-Mack in the Bali 'body in the suitcase' murder. The Prosecution at Denpasar District Court also want Schaefer to be sentenced to 18 years in jail and tears rolled down his face when he heard the news through an interpreter. Mack had been keeping her baby, Stella, with her in the crowded cell in Bali's Kerobokan prison since the child was delivered in a caesarian operation.

The baby was found in his mother's lap under several tons of mud, police said today, as the grim task of searching for bodies in Ladden village - 20 miles west of Kashmir's main city Srinagar - continued.

Neil Richardson, 69 (right), was constantly mistaken for John Jemison, 74 (left), when he moved to Braintree, Essex, and had no idea why - until the pair met and realised they look almost identical. The pair had never met up until a few days ago, despite living just 150 yards from each other, leaving Mr Richardson confused as to why people constantly confused him with Mr Jemison. However, they now recognise their similarities and have even discovered they have lived similar lives - both having attended the same college, both training as RE teachers and both enjoying singing in choirs. They have now enjoyed several lunches together in recent weeks and have even introduced their wives to one another.

Children can bring overwhelming joy to their parents' lives. But they can also make overwhelming messes and cause a lot of trouble. Now, one Instagram account is documenting all the childhood hijinks that make life a little more hectic for moms and dads. Kids Are The Worst posts photos of all the messy, exasperating, but ultimately adorable, things children get up to, from drawing on walls to dunking their hands into jars of Nutella.

The coyote (left) spent an hour on top of a New York bar after it made its way through an abandoned building. A vet (bottom right), clambered up onto the roof before retreating after identifying the coyote. Police were (top right) filmed trying to retrieve it above the LIC bar in Long Island City, Queens, New York before it fled into an old paint factory.

For half of the world's population, putting on and taking off a bra each day comes naturally. So spare a thought for the other half - the men who when faced with two metallic hooks - are thrown into chaos and confusion. Cosmopolitan magazine gave several guys the task of trying to unclasp a bra from a model, but for many it proved to be a fumbling failure.

The bright orange bugs were photographed in Tiruvalla, India as they battled with one another to take the stricken horse fly back to their nest (main image). Photographer Sreekumar Mahadevan Pillai said he took the photograph in his back garden, where a massive teak tree acts as a home for millions of half-inch long weaver ants (inset).

The stunning snaps have been released by award-winning adventure photographer Tero Repo, who has travelled to all corners of the globe from Antarctica to Greenland, Alaska, South America and even Japan to capture his images. Top skiers such as Jeremy Jones from Cape Cod in Massachusetts, USA and Victor Xavier De Le Rue from Bayonne, France, carefully edge their way down the most stomach-churning drops on the planet, including Pain du Sucre, Chamonix (left), Copt Couloir in Switzerland (centre) and Haines in Alaska (right, with Victor De Le Reu).

Wildlife photographer Jon Cornforth, 43, was lucky enough to witness two of the majestic mammals exploding out of northern Pacific Ocean together, and come crashing down in unison. The rare event was documented off the coast of Hawaii and took place near the humpback whales' breeding grounds.